Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-06-18
BILL NYE'S BLASTED PASS
The War Between the Press and the Railways.

| arrived here just little
ahead Of the biting blasts Of the !. c.
B., writes Bill Nye from Hudson, Wis.
to the New York World. By the /. C.
B., | mean to imply the Interstate
commission bill.
| noticed while en- route that the
new law had stimulated travel to a
wonderful degree. On my way from
the South, where I was during the,
winter, noticed that the sluggish
arteries 0. trade had already begun
to palpitate, and crowds OF people
filled the cars on every train.
I said to myself Congress has ut last
solved this great question OF financial
strihgency and broken the great dam
that held capital captive; On tire
fisdln9nt Air Line people crushed each
S S,ner together in a mad attempt to
travel. On the Richmond and Dan.
vile and Fast Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia, as well 81 the | louisville and
Nashville, humanity crowded dag
coaches aud sleepers till the walls
cracked. At Cincinnati | could not
get o sleeping car at all, ana | had to
telegraph tweuty.four hours ahead TO
.st &c rtltp.H. Evetvwhere, as lar %
the eye could reach. there aoCr''ed 10
be wild and restless desire to get
somewhere else. Several coapanle:
have had to put on extra coaches to
carry the eager tourists.
arrived here just in time to witness
the last moments OF n Northwestern
pass as its spirit took its flight. Had J
postponed my Journey for q single day
] would have been too late:
It Bds still young. Lille was before
1t. Barely d quarter OF the span Of
It's life had been passed when It tiftled
up and expired. 1t was a cute little
thing with an, olive complexion, and
large, mournful. upper case eyes. q.
4 few weeks ego noticed that il
did not look well. 1t did not cor'-
plain OF illness or pain, but !
thought | detected condition
on it's back, and so / hurried
home in order to be here in case
it should expire. AS soon as the con.
ductor looked at it and felt its pulse
he said that he could do nothing for
it. The interstate commerce law is
one of those things that will have tC
be tried before we can pass upon it, ]
presume, though some claim that it
IS going to be very difficult to pass
Upon 1t even then. This thought oc.
cured to me just after the gate-keepei
pushed me back yesterday and told
me to 60 and get my ticket.
| then first realized what it was to
be rudely ground under the heel of a
cold corporation that is devoid oil
soul, devoid ofnoble thoughts, devoid
OF refined instincts, devoid OF kind
impulses, devoid OF milk of human
kindness, devoid of bowels of compass
sion.
From force of habit | walked up to
the gate with a Joyous nod and the
old password, only to be coldly re-
pulsed by the hired bouncer of this
heartless, soulless, impulseless. milk
less and bowelless corporation.
But the railroads will get the worst
81 it, for know that trave! on SOME
Of the lines has fallen off since April
l. lean see it already. l have fallen
of myself since the LIST OF the month,
and Others will do the same.
That is not all. A friend of mine
who runs a paper, and whose pass
got the hollow horn on Friday
last, says that his columns are
now open to those who wish
to complain of the management Of the
road. He states that the first hot
box will be duly chronicled, and that
he will no longer close his eyes to the
wrongs we have heret ofore suffered at
the hands of the unjust and ruthless
vampire that has been sapping the
very foundations OF our institutions
and smearing its long. dark trail with
the remnants OF our best mich COWS.
reluctantly paying for them the price
set at the tail OF an unjust and ener
waiting trial by a corrupt, venal and
driveling jury.
He says that the time ''has come fot
the press to arise and assert ITSELF
and when the train runs off the track
and kills lot OF people who have LED
exemplary lives, his paper will hereaft
er tell why and how 1t was done
Heretofore he has not had sufficient
help IN the Office, but now he is goin:
to give all the particulars of the first
smash-up that occurs on the road i
the paper tails into the relentless
NAV of q Sheriff's sale on the follow.
ing week.